Eric Platon

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Eric Platon5d ago
John Mark Ockerbloom5d ago

From LB: "In ten days last month, the Wikimedia Foundation fired the longtime lead developer of MediaWiki and disbanded the team whose entire job was to listen to volunteers. Most of the people they fired were union organizers. Wikipedia’s editors are now threatening to strike....

The Foundation has spent twenty years telling donors it is not like other tech companies. The union drive is the moment when that claim either becomes true or admits it was always marketing." https://medium.com/@jakeorlowitz/wikipedia-is-doing-the-capitalist-thing-56a393232943

Big Tech’s Anti-Labor Playbook Has Come for Wikipedia

TLDR: In ten days last month, the Wikimedia Foundation fired the longtime lead developer of MediaWiki and disbanded the team whose entire…

Medium
Eric Platon6d ago
Molly White6d ago
my last name has wound up on some campaign database without my first name, so i keep hitting unsubscribe pages that ask "Not white? Please don't use this form"
Show threadEric PlatonMay 25

@mysk Hey thanks for your time. Alternative sources to the nuanced post from Green, and the screenshot.

My concern is double: Concerned by what you report (I don't use WA or whatever from Meta, but family and friends do), and concerned in making sure we spread solid information.

Anyway your tests look like confirming possibilities. Shared UIDs, shared storage on user device if only in browsers, etc. Stopping straight at any conspiracy, tools are available to stir data on user device.

Eric PlatonMay 25
Electronic Frontier FoundationMay 24
With Rayhunter, we can find out how cell site simulators are being used, and protect ourselves and our communities from this form of surveillance. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/meet-rayhunter-new-open-source-tool-eff-detect-cellular-spying
Meet Rayhunter: A New Open Source Tool from EFF to Detect Cellular Spying

Rayhunter is a new open source tool we’ve created that runs off an affordable mobile hotspot that we hope empowers everyone, regardless of technical skill, to help search out cell-site simulators (CSS) around the world.

Electronic Frontier Foundation
Show threadEric PlatonMay 25

@mysk Thanks for sharing. Would you have alternative sources? The post from Green is more nuanced than what it sounds here... just read and he basically says "maybe", with disclaimers.

Also, the screenshot here shows access to 2024 data (did not check the video). No idea, but WA could hide behind a proclaimed small-scale bug fixed today.

Eric PlatonMay 5
TIL for some butterfly species, blood type can be understood with wing patterns.
Show threadEric PlatonMay 4
Recent link on “paper planes”: https://www.404media.co/japan-cardboard-drones-air-kamuy/
Japan Is Building Cardboard Suicide Drones

AirKamuy is shipping flatpacked drones made of paper that cost around $2,000.

404 Media
Show threadEric PlatonMay 3

Ironically Japan may manage to sell paper planes as defence solutions.

A startup here presented drones made of what looks like carbon boxes. Not checked what kind of payload, but made the news here.

Eric PlatonMay 3

The JP government announced changes that will authorise selling weapons. So long pacifism.

But I can’t help thinking that selling weapons is also—or more—an economic move. 30 years of sluggish economy addressed only via macroeconomic maneuvers a la quantitative easing, and typical neoliberal recipes like privatisations. When out of ideas, fall back to selling weapons.